A total of 4,329 households nationwide will be faced with finding new accommodation in an extremely constricted market or becoming homeless, new figures released by the Residential Tenancies Board show.
The shocking figure is the number of Notices to Termination landlords issued to tenants from October to the end of December last year. The eviction notices all became active when the Government lifted the ban on evictions on the last day of March.
In three months before this period, there were 4,741 Notices of Termination issued which all became active at the start of March as well. That means there are 9,070 households that will become homeless unless they can find new accommodation.
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Dublin accounted for 43% - or 1,871 - of the Notices of Termination. There were a record number of homeless people in the capital according to the latest figures.
Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Eoin O Broin has called for "the immediate reinstatement of the ban on no fault evictions". He said: "Significantly 3,329 of the Q4 notices will fall due in April, May and June of this year.
"This is on top of the almost 3000 notices issued in Q3 that also start to fall due from April. This is huge number of eviction notices.
"While a small number of people will secure alternative private rental accommodation. Most will not. The result will be an increase in hidden homelessness as people move in with family and friends and an increase in the number of single people and families in emergency accommodation."
Dublin Live previously reported that Dublin City Council had planed to have 100 additional emergency accommodation beds for single adults by the end of March as well as 1,250 new beds in family hubs by the end of June. These beds will not even cover the number of Notices of Termination issued in the last three months of last year.
Deputy O Broin added that local authorities "are already at breaking point. Our emergency accommodation system will simply not be able to cope with any significant increase in homeless presentations. Many people will be forced to overhold and in some cases to sleep rough.
"Governments decision to end the ban on no fault evictions was wrong. It must be immediately reinstated. Government must also an emergency package of measures to prevent homelessness, accelerate exits from emergency accommodation and increase and accelerate the delivery of much needed social and affordable homes."
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